Friday, October 29, 2010

Pain killers.

Pain killers are rising in America. A recent study showed that the use of pain killers in the past ten years has gone up four times. According to statistics compiled by the Partnership for a Drug Free America, nearly one in five teens, or a staggering 4.5 million kids age 12-19, reportedly abused prescription medications to get high last year.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that the plague of substance abuse is due to the recession. People terrified of losing their jobs or their homes use prescription medications to cope with the economic downturn by anesthetizing themselves with painkillers like Vicodin and OxyContin, which not only kill physical pain but emotional distress as well. The pain of withdrawal reinforces the addictive properties of analgesics that banish migraines as well as the blues.
Pain killers are highly addictive and are ruining lives and families across america. Some people get addicted when they get hurt and are actually prescribed them. Others get them from other people or go into doctors complaining about pain that they do not have in order to get them. Pain killers are beginning to be a huge problem in America that at this point seems unresolvable. 

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